Early Middle Ages

Archaeological Open-Air Museums in the Netherlands, a Bit of History

Author(s)

Roeland Paardekooper ¹ ✉

EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2

Publication Date

2012-05-15

This article is a result of my interest in, and experience with, archaeological open-air museums. With the start of HOME Eindhoven in 1982, I became actively involved in these museums and I was one of the people involved from the first moment in EXARC. From 2005 onward, I have been conducting postgraduate research at the University of Exeter into archaeological open-air museums...

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Conference Review: III Congrès Internacional d’Arqueologia Experimental

Author(s)

Sara Graziano ¹ ✉

EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2

Publication Date

2012-05-15

From 17 - 19 October 2011 in Banyoles, Spain, the third international congress of experimental archeology took place, organized by the Asociacion Experimenta. Banyoles 2011 was a very intense conference, with over 50 speakers in three days, the quality of presentations was particularly high, as well as the presence of young, skilled and passionate researchers...

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Discussion: Archaeological Reconstruction in Situ

Author(s)

John H. Jameson ^1,2,3,4,

Wulf Hein ⁵ ✉,

Hannah Simons ⁶,

Heather Hopkins ⁷,

Paul Bidwell ⁸,

Hans Trauner ⁹,

Marquardt Lund ¹⁰,

Renger Elburg ¹¹,

Gary Ball ¹²,

Martin Müller ¹³

EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2

Publication Date

2012-05-15

Is interpreting a site’s past only possible at that site itself? Is a site better off without reconstruction and interpretation because it only damages the original material, if any is still left? Or is this the only way to salvage the story of the site for the generations to come? Ten authors were asked to give their views on the quote: “archaeological reconstruction in situ is the best way to tell the site's own story - on site. Otherwise the site is destroyed or the story lost" – and it is not that straightforward a yes or no.

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International conference on use-wear analysis

Date

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - Friday, October 12, 2012

Organised by

the University of Algarve, Portugal

Country

Portugal

Taking into account the unquestionable success of the last scientific meetings on the development of use-wear studies in archaeology over the last two decades, we are pleased to announce that we are organizing an International conference on use-wear analysis...

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75 Years of History on Concrete Floors

Author(s)

Karl Banghard ¹ ✉

EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2

Publication Date

2012-05-15

In 2011 the archaeological open-air museum Oerlinghausen (member of EXARC) turned 75 years old, and with that it is one of the oldest archaeological open-air museums in the world. It is, at least, oldest Germanic open-air museum...

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Conference Review: International Archaeological Conference, Trzcinica 2011

Author(s)

Tomasz Leszczyński ¹ ✉

EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2

Publication Date

2012-05-15

The International Conference on archaeological open-air museums and experimental archaeology: An Opportunity for the Promotion of the Tourist Industry, sponsored financially by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism, was held in the Carpathian Troy Open-Air Archaeological Museum in Trzcinica, Poland, on 9 – 10 June 2011...

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Book Review: Die byzantinische Steinsäge von Ephesos by Fritz Mangartz

Author(s)

Wulf Hein ¹ ✉

EXARC Journal Issue 2012/1

Publication Date

2012-01-15

Water driven saws for cutting stone were thought of as being modern inventions, until recently. At present we have several finds that prove such machines existed in the Classic Era...

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Conference Review: Reconstruction “in Situ”, International Archaeological Meeting of Calafell, 2011

Author(s)

Roeland Paardekooper ¹ ✉

EXARC Journal Issue 2012/1

Publication Date

2012-01-15

March 2011, EXARC convened for the 17th time, this time in Calafell, Catalonia, Spain. We could go along with the 6th international archaeology meeting of Calafell, a biannual conference. Three days long, from 9:30h in the morning until 19:30h in the evening, we listened to about...

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Conference Review: International Öguf-Symposium 2010

Author(s)

Alexandra Krenn-Leeb ¹ ✉

EXARC Journal Issue 2012/1

Publication Date

2012-01-15

Prehistory and Early History (ÖGUF) took place 27-30 October at The Museum for Natural History in Vienna under the patronage of State Captain and Mayor of Vienna Dr. Michael Häupl – and the general director of the Museum for Natural History Vienna, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Köberl. Theme was experimental archaeology: theory, practice, science, education...